Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Ocean of Reasoning
A verse-by-verse defense of Prāsaṅgika Madhyamaka — Nāgārjuna through Candrakīrti, against alternative Tibetan readings
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Ocean of Reasoning (Mature (Tsongkhapa's major philosophical-Madhyamaka work)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Non-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | Undefined |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Ocean of Reasoning
Nāgārjuna's 27 chapters as structure; timeless metaphysical truth of emptiness.
Space
Ocean of Reasoning
Dependent arising — relations rather than substances.
Matter
Ocean of Reasoning
Material phenomena as empty of inherent existence.
Observer
Ocean of Reasoning
The Madhyamika analyst whose reasoning discloses emptiness.
Energy
Ocean of Reasoning
Intellectual energies of analytic reasoning grounded in meditative realisation.
Information
Ocean of Reasoning
Nāgārjuna's verses; Tsongkhapa's systematic interpretive overlay.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Tsongkhapa's reading is contested by Sakya, Nyingma, and Jonang schools — particularly the Jonangpa gzhan stong tradition arguing the empty-of-inherent-existence reading underweights positive accounts of ultimate reality.